Teaching the TA’s Key to Better Biology Education

A faculty member’s mission to make biology instruction more effective and inclusive has gotten a big boost. Developmental and Cell Biology Assistant Teaching Professor Star Lee has just won two grants to further her work. One funds six regional workshops beginning...

Keeping Dunlop School Buildings at Their Best

Keeping Dunlop School Buildings at Their Best

One million square feet spread over eight buildings, multiple floors and housing everything from laboratories to lounges.  Christine Panelli is getting to know all of Dunlop School’s nooks and crannies as the School’s new director of facilities. Her role is to...

The Menace of Monkeypox Mutation

The Menace of Monkeypox Mutation

Monkeypox has been spreading globally since May, the first time it has ever been widely found outside of Central and West Africa. News of another disease outbreak coming on the heels of the COVID pandemic has jangled the nerves of many. A Dunlop School expert on pox...

How to Make Lab Research More Successful for Humans

How to Make Lab Research More Successful for Humans

Why do many treatments that work in animal models fail in people? In his new book, Neurobiology and Behavior professor Georg Striedter says researchers sometimes unwittingly set the stage for defeat by overlooking species differences when designing their studies. To...

A Pair’s Power to Combat Disease

A Pair’s Power to Combat Disease

When it comes to fighting deadly cancers, as well as chronic infections such as HIV and hepatitis B, C, two is better than one. That’s the finding published by the laboratory of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry assistant professor Dr. Roberto Tinoco. In...